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Janelle James is an American comedian, actress, and writer. She is best known for her role as Ava Coleman in the ABC television series Abbott Elementary, for which she won a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an NAACP Image Award, in addition to nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
Ava also starts to show more care and compassion for her staff more when she starts supporting them in their activities and personal life and has even started to like Janine a little more. A writer for the show is also named Ava Coleman [10], but this is a coincidence as Coleman started writing for the show in Season 2.
James portrays Ava Coleman, the school's inept principal. Walter portrays Melissa Schemmenti, a second-grade teacher alongside Janine. Perfetti portrays Jacob Hill, an awkward history teacher, and Ralph portrays Barbara Howard, an old-school kindergarten teacher whom Janine looks up to.
With Ava's job and the school's funding in jeopardy, Janine asks a reluctant Gregory to help her and Ava with an important upcoming presentation to the school board. Ava makes a strong presentation to the school board, but Superintendent Collins denies her request, as he is still angry with her for having blackmailed him the last few years.
The school's principal, Ava Coleman (Janelle James), walks in and asks the teachers what they think about the camera crew she brought into the school, to which Melissa replies that it's "distracting" and makes their job harder. The teachers are informed that overwhelmed first grade teacher Tina Schwartz (Kate Peterman) kicked a student in the ...
Ava claims she has hired Questlove to perform at this year's Ava Fest. Jacob, Gregory, Barbara and Melissa are skeptical; the year prior, Ava lied about hiring Jazmine Sullivan to perform at Ava Fest. Janine assumes a full-time position at the district, but begins to regret her decision after realizing how much she misses every aspect of ...
When a small fire breaks out in the teachers lounge, school principal Ava Coleman (Janelle James) rushes out of the school in a panic, abandoning everyone there.First grade teacher Gregory Eddie (Tyler James Williams) steps in as acting-principal and invites a district therapist to speak with the students and teachers.
Keith David as Frank Coleman, Ava's father. Lauren Weedman as Kristen Marie Schemmenti, Melissa's sister [7] Richard Brooks as Gerald, Barbara's husband [7] Talia Shire as Teresa Schemmenti, Melissa and Kristen Marie's mother [7] Mike O'Malley as Captain Robinson, the captain of the Philadelphia fire department who dates Melissa